How did the witches in Macbeth used to be staged in Shakespeare's day?

Answer 1

For Elizabethans witches were real, so they would be presented as common women. However, we must bear in mind that the actors were all male, and would have played more than one part in the play.

Costumes were used to portray the character, but were contemporary to the period. Make-up was necessary to show facial expression as there was no stage lighting. Lines were delivered loudly as the plays would be performed rather like modern rock concerts - in the open with the audience moving about, discussing things and joining in. The rich even paid to be able to sit on the stage, to show their wealth.

They relied on the language.

Answer 2

first of all there was no director in Shakespeare's days and I am sorry that we would only have to guess the answer to your question as there are no extant contemporary accounts of how that was done. We do know that the play was done on a plain platform with the daylight for illunination. The platform may have had trapdoors for the gravediggers in Hamlet and other scenes. But how and where the actors playing the witches did their thing, we can only guess.

Answer 3

it was no doubt up to the director.